February
1936
Volume
4 Number 11 (47 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features NO “Biggles” story. The last “Biggles” story was published in the May 1934 issue
Contents
This issue runs from page 577 to page 632 (56 pages)
Page 580 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a small photograph with the caption “The late Alberto Santos Dumont in the machine in which he made the first officially observed “hop” in Europe in 1906”)
Page
582 – Clouds to the right of them; Clouds to the left of them …. – A photograph
of five Hawker “Demons”
Page
583 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
“De Profundis” – “So we have climbed off the high horse. Or were we pushed?” Johns talks about the threat to the Mediterranean
Fleet from Mussolini’s Air Force and only now are the Admiralty and the War
Office waking up to it. The importance
and superiority of air power was something Johns and others have spoken of for
years. “It will, I hear, take four
years to put things right. Four
years! That’s how far we are
behind. Shall we be given so much
time? Hitler aims to be ready in
eighteen months ……..”)
Page
585 – 1936 A Year of Promise – William Courtenay
Page
586 – By Air from Singapore to London – 8323 miles in the “Arethusa” – Lily
Eustace Jameson
Page
590 – The Low-Down on the U-Boat Business – Capt. J. A. Sinclair
Page
595 – Modern Aircraft (No. 2) – The Westland F.7/30 Fighter
Page
596 – The Flying Doctor – Goes his rounds in Australia – by “Queenslander”
Page
598 – Steam Power Units for Aircraft – J. L. Beilschmidt
Page
601 – Teaching a Madman to Fly – Thrills of a pilot instructor at a London
aerodrome – Capt. R. G. Griffith
Page
603 – “Popular Flying” Presents – “Caught by the Camera” – A picture gallery of
the world’s best air photographs
Pages
604 and 605 – The Centre Pages – A selection of photographs continuing from
Page 603
Page
606 – High Times at Hollywood
(“Quite
a number of Hollywood stars appear in popular flying in more senses than
one. Many of them are pilots and others
use the aeroplane as a regular way of getting about”)
Page
608 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Flight-Lieut. G. W. Higgs, R.A.F. (Retd.)
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
611 – Flying Wires – News from Home Airports
Page
612 – Gliding During 1935 – J. R. Ashwell-Cooke
Page
614 – Gambling with Death – Alfred Cellier
(“Testing war machines is a man’s job. We have described British methods in a
previous article;
this is how they do it in the United States”)
Page 615 – Aviation Bookshelf
Page 616 – The Money Side – Aircraft Accessories – by E. P. N.
Page 617 – The World’s First Air, Water and Ground Terminus – Don Glassman (Our New York Correspondent)
Page 618 – Para-Shoots – Drops of International News
Page 619 – Can it be done? –
(“Will man ever be able to hover in the air
like a bird? New attempts to fly only
by the power of the human muscles”)
Page 620 – The Heliotrope Cloud – A Complete Story – William J. Elliott
Page 628 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence”
“Warbirds Lunch Notice – Alteration of
Rendezvous – Will prospective lunchers please note that the next lunch will be
held at the EIGHT-THIRTY CLUB, 25 Newport Court, London. W.C.2. Time: 12 noon for 1 o’clock”
One letter is from Holme Lacey,
Herefordshire – just a few miles from where I live – and criticises the
suggestion of a previous correspondent that Manfred von Richthofen be erased
from journalistic efforts for a year)
Page 630 – The Editor’s Cockpit
continues and features a Stop Press
(“Next month will see the commencement of a series of colour plates, in supplement form. Get your frames ready, and if you have not already done so, order your POPULAR FLYING. W.E.J.”)
Page 632 – The Buyers’ Log
On the inside back cover the John Hamilton book advert has the heading “The ACE Series, Two New Titles” and “The Airman’s Bookshelf, Two New Titles” – In all 8 books are advertised and none of them are by W. E. Johns.
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